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plu·toc·ra·cy [plu:ˈtɒkrəsi, Am -ˈtɑ:krə-] N

plutocracy

Plutokratie f form

plutocracy (wealthy elite)

die oberen Zehntausend

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Elitists tend to favor systems such as meritocracy, technocracy and plutocracy as opposed to radical democracy, political egalitarianism and populism. en.wikipedia.org

It eased the burden of the workers, and determined that membership of the ruling class was to be based on wealth (plutocracy), rather than by birth (aristocracy). en.wikipedia.org

Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our legislatures and defeat the will of the people, and plutocracy has thereby been enthroned upon the ruins of democracy. en.wikipedia.org

Although aristocratic values permeated traditional elite society, a strong tendency toward plutocracy is indicated by the wealth requirements for census rank. en.wikipedia.org

It was also to give access to the salubrious villas built by the colony's emerging plutocracy. en.wikipedia.org

A botched, my-way-or-the-highway programme of privatisation left the country with a corrupt plutocracy. nationalinterest.org

This is in contrast to elitism, aristocracy, synarchy or plutocracy, each of which is an ideology that espouse government by a small, privileged group above the masses. en.wikipedia.org

The cost of political campaigning in representative democracies favors the rich, a form of plutocracy where only a very small number of individuals can actually affect government policy. en.wikipedia.org

This stand against plutocracy was consistent with his life and consisted of a long defense of a middle-class society against the pressures of greedy self-interest groups and demos, the mob. en.wikipedia.org

It typically has stratified social classes, including a large, impoverished working class and a ruling plutocracy of business, political, and military elites. en.wikipedia.org

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